Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance :: Hacking, Distributed: "As you're undoubtedly well-aware, there are some very strong geek fashion trends in the valley. I don't mean fashion in the sense of geek haute-couture -- the fashion trends we're talking about here have to do with tech components. You've heard of it before: "here's how we built fubar.com using X, Y and Z." The blogosphere regurgitates this dreck, and people base their adoption strategies on how much noise they have heard about various X's, Y'z and Z's."